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...Japan but not the answers. Correspondents in Washington and Tokyo last week had a hard time finding out from the U.S. Army how occupation policies were shaping up. Typical interview in Tokyo...
...Umezu - the No. 1 Japanese war criminal of them all, billiard-bald, razor-tongued Hideki Tojo, who as Premier led his people to war on December 7, 1941, took matters into his own hands. The day after two Associated Press correspondents forced their way into his house for an interview, U.S. Army intelligence officers turned up to take Tojo away for questioning. The irate warmonger made faces at them througlf a window, retired to an inner room where he had already made hara-kiri preparations, ignominiously and hastily shot himself below the heart with a 32-calibre pistol. Given...
...Gaulle's office came a letter from a Committee of Five, representing Communists, Socialists, Radical Socialists, the League for the Rights of Man and the General Confederation of Labor (Confederation Generate du Travail-France's C.I.O., claiming 3,500,000 members). The committee requested an interview to discuss France's electoral machinery, which leftists say gives the rural population a greater voice than city workers. The letter was signed by the C.G.T.'s burly, goateed Secretary General, Léon Jouhaux...
When correspondents came in to congratulate and interview him, his voice shook: "I have had little contact with the outside world, but I ... believe the War Department and the American people lave accepted my dire disaster with a forbearance and generosity greater than any in the experience of any other defeated commander...
...onetime member of the Polish Socialist Party, he was invited to Moscow in 1944. There he talked with Russian-armed Polish troops and Polish WACs, had an extraordinary (140 minutes) interview with Joseph Stalin. His sympathies were always with the Lublin group. Back in the U.S., he reported to the State Department (as a private U.S. citizen), worked hard on Polish-American groups to sell the idea of Russo-Polish cooperation...